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Public Library of Science, PLoS Medicine, 2(2), p. e44, 2005

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020044

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Can Routine Commercial Cord Blood Banking Be Scientifically and Ethically Justified?

Journal article published in 2005 by Nicholas M. Fisk ORCID, Irene A. G. Roberts, Roger Markwald, Vladimir Mironov
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Abstract

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE: Umbilical cord blood--the blood that remains in the placenta after birth--can be collected and stored frozen for years. A well-accepted use of cord blood is as an alternative to bone marrow as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for allogeneic transplantation to siblings or to unrelated recipients; women can donate cord blood for unrelated recipients to public banks. However, private banks are now open that offer expectant parents the option to pay a fee for the chance to store cord blood for possible future use by that same child (autologous transplantation).